Mechanical movement.



PATENTED FEB. 4, 1908.

E. G. EBERHARDT. MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 1907.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELMER. G. EBERHARDT, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO EBERHARDT BROTHERS MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

MECHANICAL MOVEICENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1908.

Application filed May 21. 1907. Serial No. 374.825.

To all/whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER G. EBERHARDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at 113 Orchard street, Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in M chanical Movements, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The present invention relates to a mechanical movement which is especially applicable for the automatic indexing mechan ism of gear cutters, milling machines, and analogous constructions, in which a spindle is rotated through a definite arc of the circle. I11 such automatic indexing mechanisms, it

has been common to employ a continuously rotated pulley to actuate the mechanism and .to connectthe same by a detachable clutch with the gearing for rotating the spindle.

To arrest the movement of the gearing when the spindle is rotated through the desired arc, it has been common to employ a rotary stop-disk with a notch or tooth thereon adapted to be engaged .b a movable stoppiece when the spindle as been turned through the requisite arc. By arranging the gearing to rotate the disk once during such are movement of the spindle, the stopping of. the disk arrests the movement of the spindle and the movement of the stop-piece byfalling-into a notch in the disk, may be utilized to disconnect the clutch upon the drivingpulley. Three constructions have been employed in connection with such mechanism, but all of such constructions fail to rotate the spindle in the exact manner required for indexing the workiece in a gearcutter or millingmachine. n the first construction, a notch in the disk simply permits a movement of the sto -piece to disconnect the clutch, and althou 1 it shifts the clutch b operating the clutc lever, theaccuracy of the indexing depends upon the moment of separation, and this in turn produces an incorrect result, which depends in a great degree upon the momentum of the parts. In another construction, a latch is employed in connection with the stop-disk and stop-piece to lock the stop-piece in place to prevent any further movement of the stop-disk. This construction also depends upon momentum to bring the clutch-teeth apart, and the stopdisk up to the point at which the latch operates, and when any variation in the momentum arises, due to friction or other resistances, the latch does not operate and the indexing is inaccurate.

Another device has been used which employs an independent flexible operated cam and lever to move the stop-disk up to the stop-piece at the moment of and after the clutch-teeth separate. This device does not depend upon momentum, and operates as well when the machine is running at one speed as another; but involves a complication of parts, which it is the object of the present invention to avoid.

In the present invention, the notch in the stop-disk is made upon one side with a radial surface and'with an opposite sloping sur'face, upon the side toward which the stop-disk is rotated, and the movable stop-piece (having on one side a perpendicular stop-surface, and upon its opposite side a slope corresponding to the note is connected with the clutchunlocking device and pressed normally by a spring toward the rim of the disk. The stop-piece therefore drops automatically into the notch near the end of one rotation, which causes the withdrawal of the clutch from the driving-pulley; and in case the clutch becomes detached before the stop-disk makes an entire rotation, the sloped side of the stop operates to meve the disk to the required point, when it is completely arrested by the perpendicular side of the stop, which sets at right angles to the disks movement. Such final movement of the stop-piece is performed by the spring, independent of the momentum of the other parts, and thus opcrates with certainty and uniformity to complete the rotation of the spindle in the required arc. This construction for the stopdisk and the stop-piece can be combined with any, train of gearing which is used in a dividing engine of any kind, and is therefore illustrated herein in a diagrammatic manner, which shows in a simple form the connection between the continuously running pulley and the s indle upon which the dividing gearwhee is fixed.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a plan of the mechanism with the spindle and its drivingworm omitted; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same viewed from the outside of the frameplate; Fig. 3 is an' ed e view of the same viewedfrom the left side of Fig.- 1; Fig. 4 is anv elevation viewed from the inner side of the framelate; Fig. 5 is a diagram of the stop-disk illustrating the stop-piece retracted'; and Fig. 6 a dia ram showing the stoppiece rotatin the dish.

The spind ewhich requires intermittent rotation is shown at a, and is provided with the usual worm gear-wheel b. The shaft and the worm for drivin the worm wheel I) are lettered c, and the s aft has a gear-wheel d upon the end toconnect by change-wheels with the stop-disk. The stop-disk e is connected by a gear-wheel f and an intermediate gear 9 with the gear-wheel d, the three gears being changeable and adjustable to vary the 'relative speed of the worm-shaft and the stop-disk. The stop-disk is connected with a gear-wheel h which is shown driven by a inion 11 having a clutch-block 7' upon one en and fitted to turn freely upon a shaft 7:. Apulley Z is fitted to run continuously upon the shaft, and provided upon its hub with a clutch m to engage the clutch j. The pulley Z and clutch m rotate between collarsn, n, fixed upon the shaft, and the pinion 'i and clutch 7' are pressed normally toward the clutch m by a spring 0 fitted between theend' of the in ion and the bearing of the shaft is.

A co lar p is shown fixed upon the clutch j, and a slo in notch g formed in its face to engage a c utch-shifting in 1' upon a ,movable clutch-lever s. The cl iitc'h-lever moves the pin toward andfrom, the shaftk, and when the pin is pressed toward the clutch it falls into the notch g and the rotation of the clutch moves the sloping face of the notch against the pin and retracts the clutch-teeth adjacent to the pawl and o a side o'sloped corr in opposition to the s ring 0. The stop-disk is formed with a notcli having the radial side t and the sloping side t, such sloping face being upon the side of the notch toward which the dlsk' is turning, as indicated by the adjacent arrow. A stop-lever u is hinged adjacentlto the edge of the stop-disk and provided with the stop-piece or tooth having the perpendicular side 1) and having an o osite spondingly to the's1 e t of the notch.

A s ring it presses the stop-piece toward the e ge of the disk. A spring-pawl 'w is seated 1n the upper end of the lever u, and a dog :0 is formed upon an arm y which is fitted perates to engage the same, as shown in Fig. 4, when rnoved forwardly. A' "pull-out-rod 2 is shown connected with the arm 'y to oscillate the dog when the spindle requires a partial rotation; the dog slipping off of the pawl at the completion' of such movement, and permittin the-stop-lever u to be immediately presse again-toward the edge of the disk by its spring a, as shown in Fig. 5. The stop-lever u is linked to the clutch-levers by a connecting-rod .9 piece from the edge of the disk simultaneous retracts the pin 1" from the notch-g and leaves piece, which is and such retraction of the stop-i notch by-the spring a so that its's opin face the spring 0 free to engage the clutch j with the rotating clutch 'm. traction of the stop-piece thus causes an immediate rotation of the disk, while the release'of the arm 3 from the dog as permits the stop-piece to rest upon the disk during its movement, until the notch comes again opposite to the stop-piece; The stop-piece is thenpressed progressively into the notch by the action of'the spring u, ously permits the pin 1 to retract the clutchy' and disconnects themotive power from the stop-disk. If such disconnection of the clutch occurs before the stop-disk is rotated a complete revolution, the sloping face 1) upon the stop-piece presses upon the sloping side t of the notch in the disk as shown in Fig. 5, and forces the disk to complete its rotation until the radial face trests 'upon the perpendicular face if of the stop.

Sli ht variations in the disen agement of the c utch have always been lia le to occur in this class of dividing mechanism, but they produce no injurious effect when the peculiar form of stop is em loyed, which I have just described, as the slhp ng face '0" of the sto' piece operates to press the sto -disk in tffe same direction in which the c utch acts to to rotate it, and thus completes the movement positively, without the exertion of any material force on the part of thestop-piece.

which simultane- This enables a relatively light s ring to be H I used at u for actuating thesto'p ever ra/and greatly reduces the resistance opposed to the rod z, which in gear-cutting) and milling ma-.

chines is commonly pulled y the cutter-carriage of the machine, and necessitates a needless consumption of power if much resistancebe opposed to its movement.

It will be noticed that the arm g has a detachable dog and pawl connection with the stop-lever, so that when the arm is actuated by the pull-out 2, the stop is momentarily withdrawn from the notch in the disk'and' is instantly pressed again toward the edge of the disk 'by the spring a; The shifting pin 1- operates, when any portion of it enters the sloping notch to se arate the clutch parts from one anot er am sto the positive motion of the disk, and such 0 shifting pin occurs when t e stop piece partly enters the notch in the disk, so that the positive motion of the disk is arrested be-- fore the stop-piece has fully entered the notch. The momentum of the-stop disk and all its connected parts has a certain'eflect in continuing the rotation of the stop-disk, although sucheflect is not the same when the mechanismis operated at diverse speeds; The exact rotation of the disk is, however, effected by the'final "pressed positivel into t e producesa continued rotation of the dis until the radial face of the notch is iii-contacteration of the i movement of, the sto bination, with a rotary stop-disk having a,

notch in the edge, of" mechanism for rotating the disk a single revolution, a movable stop piece with a spring for pressing it toward the rim of the disk and having one side perpendicular to the motion of the disk and the opposite side sloped in the direction of the motion, 1

the notch in the disk having a radial side to be arrested'bv the perpendicular side of the stop-piece and with the sloping side of the stop-piece, the means for prcssing the stoppiece into the notch operating to complete the rotation of the disk.

2. .ln a mechanical movement, a rotary stop-disk with a notch in the edge, means for securing an exact complete rotation of the disk, comprising-a clutch rotatable with the stop-disk, a continuoust' running driver to rotate such clutch, a stop-lever having a stop piece with one side sloped in the direction of the disks motion and pressed normally toward the edge of the disk, the notch in disk being corrcspi)ndinglv sloped upon its forward side, and means actuated by the stop-lever l'ori disconnecting the clutch trom the rotating driver when the stop-piece has i partly entered the notch.

3. In a mechanical n'iovernent, a rotary stopdisk with a notch in the edge, means for securing an exact complete rotation of the a sloping side corcsponding the disk, comprising a gear rotatable with the stop-disk. a pinion lor driving such gear hav- 3 mg a clutch upon its hub, a continuously running driver with a corresponding clutch, means for pressing the clutch parts normally together, a clutch -levcr for retracting the clutch parts when desireda stop-lever ha ving a stop-piece with one side sloped in the direc-- tion of the disks motion and pressed normally toward the edge of the disk, the notchin the disk being correspondingly sloped upon its forward side, and a. connection between the stop-lever and clutch-lever operating when the stop-picce partly enters the notch to disconnect the clutch and stop the positive for securing an exact complete rotation ofthe disk, comprising a gear rotatable with the stop-disk, a pinion for driving such gear having a clutch upon its hub, a continuously running driver with a tan-responding clutch, means for pressing the clutclnparts normally together, a clutch-lever for retracting the clutch-parts when desired, a stop-lever having a stop-piece with one side sloped in the direction of the disks motion and pressed normall toward the, edge of the disk, the notch in the disk being corrcspondingly sloped upon its forward side, an arm adjacent, to the stop-lever with "pnll-out-rod for oscillating the same, and a detachable dog and pawl connection between the arm and the stop-lever to autonmticall) release the stop-lever when the stop-piece is pulled from. the notch in the disk. and a connection between the stop-lever and clutch-1e ver operating when the stop-piece partlv enters the notch to disconnect the clutch and stop the positive movement of the disk.

in a mechanical movement, a rotary stop--tlisk with a notch in the edge, means for securing an exact complete rotation of the disk, comprising a. gear rotatable with'the slop-disk, a pinion for driving such gear having a clutch upon its hub, a continuously run ning driver with a corresponding clutch, means for pressing the clutch-parts normally together, a clutch-lever lul retracting the clutch-parts when desired, a stop-lever having a stop- )iece with one side sloped in the direction 0 the disks motion ,and pressed normally toward the edge of the disk, the notch in the disk being ct)rrcspoinlinglvsloped upon its forward side, and the pinion having a collar 2) with sloping notch q therein, the clutch-lever s having clutch-shifting pin 1" movable into the path ol the collar and engaging the sloping notch, a connection bctwecn the stop-lever and clutch-lever l'or rctracting the shifting-pin r i'rom the sloping notch 1 when the stop-piece is retracted, and means for Jm'nnentarilv withdrawing the stoplcver from the edge ol the d isk.

in testimony whereof I have hereunto set inv hand in the presence ol two subscribing witnesses.

Elillllli (i. lCBEHHARDT. Witnesses:

J. E. Famous, FRANK E. EBERHARDT. 

